Review of Shannon Hale's Ever After High: A Wonderlandiful World
Release Date: August 26th, 2014
Synopsis as found on Amazon.com:
At Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White.
When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. The students transform into animals and objects, palace mice talk, and the beautiful green grounds on campus fade to black-and-white. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen, Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio, and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Hat and Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school-and their lives-a very unhappy ending.
Don't miss Book #1, Ever After High: Storybook of Legends and Book #2, Ever After High: The Unfairest of Them All!
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As an adult male, I sometimes get a funny look when I tell people that I only read Young Adult & Juvie books. In all honesty, I enjoy them far more than many Adult books. Even though they may be written for a younger demographic, they are written by Adults & the subject matter is still very adult (in most cases). I am a huge fan of Monster High & Ever After High (the animated shorts & the dolls), so when the first Ever After High book came out, I read it. I ended up loving it... so in turn I read the sequel & now the third in the series.
This is the first book in the series where Raven Queen was not the main character & the story was not centered around her. In A Wonderlandiful World, the story is based around all the characters who originated in Wonderland (Maddie Hatter, Lizzie Hearts, & Kitty Cheshire), as well as Cedar Wood (Pinocchio's daughter). In the events of Unfairest of Them All, Wonderland's greatest foe, the Jabberwocky, was released from its Uni-Cairn prison, lost to wreak havoc on Ever After. It is believed that is will spend its time sleeping & recuperating its strength. Little did the characters know, it would be back so soon.
The Jabberwocky is not able to get back to Wonderland like it wants, so instead, it begins transforming Ever After into a place more like Wonderland. The Furniture come to life, all the characters start transforming into something more fitting their names (Raven into a Raven, Apple into an Apple, Briar into a Rose Bush, Goldie into a Golden Lock, etc), and Cedar becomes a real girl... only the Wonderlandians are spared, seeing as how the magic originates from Wonderland.
The girls must find a way to defeat the Jabberwocky, before it can get to Book End, because if it succeeds in changing Ever After all the way there... the spell will be unbreakable & their stories will end!
This book, like the previous 2, is a happy uplifting quick read. I quite enjoy the language used & the great morals written into it. Other series you may like if you are a fan of this one is Soman Chainani's The School for Good & Evil or Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson.
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